I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ever since
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will

It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die
Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the

Ain't no way for me to love you,
if you won't let me.
It ain't no way for me to give you all you need,
if you won't let me give all of me.
I know that a woman's duty,
Is to help and love a man,
and that's the way it was planned.
Oh, but how can I, how can I, how can I

I sing these words time and time again
To express my life of being your lover and your friend
And as the clouds high above shed their tears
I'll embrace you with love from all your fear

Am I the one am I the one that you love?
Am I the one?
Am I the one that you think o

Walk into the bar
And shake off my coat
Pull up a chair
And light up a smoke

Where did all those summers go?
Guess I’ll never know
So barkeep let’s give it a go

Pour me a dream
And play me a tune
And I’ll get along
Just as long
As I have a song

Your love's like a cigarette
Burning on my bed tonight
Your love leaves no promises
For the emptiness inside

And I know that I should leave
But I know I'm gonna stay
No good man I ever known
Has made me hurt this way

Yeah everybody wants somebody
Somebody

Got the lips, got the legs
I was born to drive a man insane
I don't worry and I don't shame
Put it on me, I'm the queen of pain

I've been bad, I've been cruel
I'm not sorry, baby, sorry for you
It's my party and I don't dance
Just want your liquor and your cheap rom

My love has come along
My dream's become a song
My days are bright and sunny
Funny why I'm so blue

The man is like a drug
Humiliating and I can't get enough
Love and all it's splendor
Has surrendered it's every blow
Bad is the blues that I know

If this is

Black coffee (ooh)
Is my name
Black coffee (black coffee)
We're not a thing
Black coffee (ooh)

Freshly ground and fully prepared
Hot black coffee, boy (black coffee)
Mmm that's where it's at (mean it)
Way back yonder when I don't know when
See I got hungover

She remembers the day they met
Right down to the minute
Her life has never been the same

Sitting alone in the dark
Staring into the night
Her life has never ever been the same
She cries, "It's a mystery
Can anybody see it,
How much this is hurting me?
It's b

Everytime he walks out the front door
I wonder if he's ever coming back
But I can't help but love the taste of danger, baby
And the howl and the wind
And the rough of his hands

I got caught up in the rain
If I die I don't care, I'm in love
I'm in love, I'm in love

Well I don't go to church on Sunday
Don't get on my knees to pray
Don't memorize the books of the Bible
Got my own special way
I know Jesus loves me
Maybe just a little bit more
I fall down on my knees every Sunday
At Zerelda Lee's candy store

Well I've got to b

Love is heavy on my mind And heavier on my heart They tell me love is blind But I can see fine here in the dark And it's a good day To cry, cry, cry It's a good day A good day to sigh Stay

Something told me that it was over, baby, yeah
When I saw you
When I saw you and that girl
And y'all was talking

Something deep down
Something deep down in my soul said
Go on, go on and cry, girl
When I saw you, when I saw you with that same person
And y'all was

I keep my head on straight
And my eyes wide open
I try to move forward
Wishing and hoping
I took a hold of myself
In the middle of November
Don't you look back now
Is all I can remember

I feel like I'm leaving
Like I'm leaving home
Like the clouds are pa

I've seen myself with a dirty face I cut my luck with a dirty ace I leave the light on I leave the light on Daddy ain't that bad he just plays rough I ain't that scarred when I'm covered up I

For all the things I never said
I'm sorry that I never did
I thank you for your precious time
For teaching me how to climb

I love you more than summertime
You've been such a good friend of mine
And every sacred word is true
I learned to love because of you and

I put another picture Of you in a frame The one of you and me When I got your name We set up shop At the old johnson place You had sunshine on your face So until you come home Until

Hello, hello
Are you in there, child?
Leave that party dress
And your suicidal smile
Hello, hello
I've come to see it done
The stripes across your face
And the battles that he's won

Don't tell me to hide
I've run from living all my life

I'm setting me

Tell her you're mine
That you have been blind
Tell her it's over
And you belong to me
Tell me to come
And like hell I will run
Back into your arms
'Cause you belong to me

There's a river on my skin
There's a dragon in the dark
Nothing scares me more

I see blue birds of paradise
I see sunset to sunrise
I watch comets in the sky
I see magic flying by
I feel my father holding me
I feel my spirit learn to breathe
I look into my mother's eyes
I know this must be paradise

And I say oh my, oh my
This is paradi